Miha Engblom
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Yesterday I made some more single oil soaps, just to get the feel of what each butter / oil has to give to my soap. I got a little bit different result then what zensoapswap got.
I tested Palm oil, shea butter, mango seed butter , Palm kernel oil , and cocoa butter. Some months ago I tested green avocado also.
Just to make sure I get the right SF (5%) I used 300 g of each butter/ oil (except for mango... I used only 190g because that was all I had left
roblem .
I gelled them and today I cut them in slides and used one piece of each.
All of them left the skin nice and smooth , I guess they will feel even more moisturizing after they are cured.
PKO had super lather... nothing new,
Mango and shea had about the same kind of lather - small bubbles (maybe like castile)
Cocoa Butter had pretty much no lather at all ,
Palm had a decent lather.
the single oil avocado soap I made some time ago was super nice , and had decent lather.
All of them ashed badly except for PKO that ashed slightly... but that one was the first one to gel also.
Mango traced pretty fast, I only had to mix it with a spoon.
I will come back again when they have been curing some months and say how conditioning they feel !
I think I will continue to use butters in my soap, I think they are so great!!!!
I think also I will switch to PKO...instead of CO
Have any questions feel free to ask !
I tested Palm oil, shea butter, mango seed butter , Palm kernel oil , and cocoa butter. Some months ago I tested green avocado also.
Just to make sure I get the right SF (5%) I used 300 g of each butter/ oil (except for mango... I used only 190g because that was all I had left
roblem . I gelled them and today I cut them in slides and used one piece of each.
All of them left the skin nice and smooth , I guess they will feel even more moisturizing after they are cured.
PKO had super lather... nothing new,
Mango and shea had about the same kind of lather - small bubbles (maybe like castile)
Cocoa Butter had pretty much no lather at all ,
Palm had a decent lather.
the single oil avocado soap I made some time ago was super nice , and had decent lather.
All of them ashed badly except for PKO that ashed slightly... but that one was the first one to gel also.
Mango traced pretty fast, I only had to mix it with a spoon.
I will come back again when they have been curing some months and say how conditioning they feel !
I think I will continue to use butters in my soap, I think they are so great!!!!
I think also I will switch to PKO...instead of CO
Have any questions feel free to ask !
